In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was publicly ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows Napoleon ...

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism ...

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was France's greatest artist of his generation—a generation trampled by the French Revolution and then by Napoleon. David acted out the raging contradictions of the ...

Jacques Louis David, "The Oath of the Tennis Court" (1791). pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, with two irregularly shaped fragments ...

PARIS — The Louvre can credibly claim to be the greatest museum on the planet, but it’s had better months. The heist of jewels estimated to be worth between “inestimable” and 88 million euros is the ...

35 x 43 cm. (13.8 x 16.9 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

84.5 x 61.6 cm. (33.3 x 24.3 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...